claiming that the Warsaw Pact is about to attack and the Russians are saying the same thing about the Hegemon. They’re were Russians marines all over Eros, and the Polemarch is Russian. They’re was a truce on earth. They agreed to accept the Locke, Peter’s, proposal, which was that the I.F. would stay in existence, but without the Warsaw Pact in it. So the Warsaw Pact marines are going home. Russia agreed to it because they’re facing a revolt among the Islamic States. The Hegemon resigned.At first Ender believed they would bring him back to earth as soon as things quieted down, but things had been quiet for a year now and it was clear they wouldn’t bring him back to earth. He was much more useful as a name and story than he would ever be as an inconvenient flesh-and-blood person would. Ender was promoted to the rank of admiral. But now Eros was busier than ever, as colonists were brought here to prepare for their voyages to the empty bugger worlds. Valentine came to be one of the colonists to go to the bugger home world with the first colony. Demonsthenes had retired. Ender went with Valentine and the other colonists to the bugger home world and colonized it. Ender was governor of the colony that had settled the bugger world. The colonists set up a city and set up a self-sustaining economy.Life settled down, and years passed. The colony lived in wooden houses and used the bugger tunnels of the bugger city for storage and manufacture. They became people of the land. Ender found out through the ansible that the new colony ship was a year away and he had to pick a spot for them to settle. Ender took a helicopter to look for a far enough place for the new colony so that they could trade with each other, but be governed separately. Ender found a place that seemed good, camped for the night and got a feel for the land on foot. Ender felt that he had been there before. Ender knew why this place seemed familiar; it...
